If you felt as though there weren’t enough streaming services looking to put a dent in your monthly income, then the good news is that CBS All Access is preparing to rebrand as Paramount Plus over the next few months and expand internationally, to try and gain a foothold in an increasingly competitive market.
So far, only a handful of projects have been announced for the fledgling platform, and the library of CBS Access originals is pretty thin as it is. with the entire roster only spanning a dozen shows. Out of those dozen, four of them have already been canceled and three of them are part of the Star Trek universe, so the executives are going to have to get their thinking caps on in order to come up with a reason to convince audiences to shell out for yet another over-the-top service.
The future of Star Trek on the small screen is already mapped out until 2027 at the earliest, so the beloved sci-fi brand is set to factor heavily into the plans for Paramount Plus regardless of what else ends up in development, but insider Daniel Richtman is now claiming that the studio want feature films to be a key part of the planned expansion.
There’s already multiple movies that have stalled over the last couple of years including the fourth installment in the Kelvin timeline, Noah Hawley’s planned reboot and Quentin Tarantino’s fabled R-rated script, and the continued adventures of the Enterprise crew appear to be stuck in cinematic stasis for the time being.
None of the Star Trek blockbusters even rank among Paramount’s 25 highest-grossing movies ever, and given the huge level of investment required it would be a massive gamble for a brand new streaming service to plow anywhere up to $150 million into a brand new outing. The most likely scenario is that the franchise remains a big screen exclusive for the foreseeable future to maximize the earning potential, while Paramount Plus becomes the permanent home of Trek on TV.
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